Kozelsk

Kozelsk (???????? in Russian, also spelt Kozielsk in English) is a town in the Kaluga Oblast in Russia, located on the Zhizdra River (Oka's tributary) 72 km southwest of Kaluga. As of 2002 the town had 19,907 inhabitants.

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The town of Kozelsk was first mentioned in a chronicle under the year of 1146 as a part of Principality of Chernigov. Kozelsk became famous in the spring of 1238, when its 7-year-old prince had to defend the town against the army of Batu Khan. The latter dubbed it an "evil town" due to the fact that its citizens had been fighting the attackers for seven weeks in a row, killing around 4,000 enemy soldiers during the siege. The cititenzs of Kozelsk were greatly outnumbered and almost all of them died in battle.

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Kaluga Oblast: Kaluga Oblast (?????????? ????????)(29,900 km?, pop. 1,041,641 as of 2002 All-Russian Population Census) is a regional subdivision of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga....